Community | March 12, 2011 | 11 comments

Media Coverup of Massive Chernobyl Event Underway in Japan

source: http://www.prisonplanet.com/media-coverup-of-massive-chernobyl-event-underway-in-japan.html

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A large explosion at Japan’s stricken Fukushima Daiich nuclear power plant reveals that a meltdown is now underway following the exposure of the core following an 9.1-magnitude earthquake.
The media in Japan is not reporting this fact in order to prevent mass hysteria.
Prior to the explosion today, the media reported the radiation level was 1000 times higher than the permissible level.
Kyodo News agency said radioactive cesium had been detected near the 40 year old facility, citing the nuclear safety agency.
Government spokesman Yukio Edano said radiation levels around the Fukushima Daiichi plant in northeastern Japan had not risen after the explosion, despite earlier press reports it had.

It is obvious the Japanese are attempting to cover up the deadly seriousness of events unfolding in their country.
The white smoke emitted from the Fukushima plant resembles the smoke emitted at Chernobyl after the Ukrainian nuclear plant blew up and caught fire on April 26, 1986. Here is a documentary on the events at Chernobyl.
Chernobyl has been blamed for thousands of deaths due to radiation-linked illness.
“If the pressure vessel, which is the thing that actually holds all the nuclear fuel … if that was to explode — that’s basically what happened at Chernobyl — you get an enormous release of radioactive material,” said Prof. Paddy Regan, nuclear physicist from Britain’s Surrey University.
Reuters reports this morning that experts examining pictures of “mist above the plant suggested only small amounts of radiation had been expelled as part of measures to ensure its stability, far from the radioactive clouds that Chernobyl spewed out when it exploded in 1986.”
This characterization is at odds with video of the explosion showing large plumes rising high above the crippled plant.
Even though 210,000 people were evacuated from the region, Japanese authorities and the corporate media insist the situation is not serious. Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan has said that only a small amount of radiation has been released from one of the reactors.
Wind charts reveal that radiation released from the plant will adversely impact nations surrounding Japan.

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11 comments // Media Coverup of Massive Chernobyl Event Underway in Japan // Video

  • Milieu
  • Tartan10
    • +1
      Tartan10  

    • I agree ArchDruid.

      What the world needs now is LOVE. Not just for some... but for EVERYONE.

      Life is not about news... news is not about life.

    • 1 year ago
  • artemis6
  • ArchDruid
  • Jeremy_Benson
  • Jeremy_Benson
    • +3
      Jeremy_Benson  

    • There is a massive difference between Chernobyl and Fukushima. Sure, you've got some physical similarities such as the white smoke, but that's like saying apples and oranges are the same because they both produce seeds. Chernobyl was a fast acting reactor built with shoddy materials and old technology. Fukushima is a modern, slow reactor. So with Chernobyl you were fine one minute and the next you were in meltdown. With Fukushima it took hours before it entered a meltdown crisis.

      Now, it could be better than Chernobyl, or it could be worse. Time will tell, and either way it is certainly very, very bad. But the comparisons between the two end with 'they are both nuclear reactors'. The notion that there is some sort of coverup is not based on facts, the video accompanying the article does not provide any sort of evidence to back up this claim (indeed, even seems to suggest the opposite), and prisonplanet is not a reliable source.

      Edit: also, if it's a coverup then why is it all over the news? Logic has flown the coop.

    • 1 year ago
  • pukemnukem
    • +1
      pukemnukem  
    • Jeremy_Benson:

      Amen...
      Chernobyl was designed with a negative temperature coefficient, no containment vessel, and was operating at power when it went prompt critical due to serious operator error (running the turbine generators until they tripped off line). They didn't even have an emergency cool down system installed.

      Even with the elevated radiation levels currently being experienced around the plant, the level is what a person would normally get from the environment over a year. Compare that to Chernobyl where high radiation alarms were going off in freaking Western Europe. The levels at the site were so high that robotic machinery could not function during the cleanup and stay times were down to less than minutes during the cleanup (not that the Soviets even bothered to warn or train cleanup personnel).

      Comparing these two events is like comparing a smoke bomb to a case of TNT.

    • 1 year ago
  • jubal
  • Dupree_Mark
  • COMMONSENSEFORCOMMONGOOD_COM
  • im1mjrpain
    • 0
      im1mjrpain  

    • The white smoke emitted from the Fukushima plant resembles the smoke emitted at Chernobyl after the Ukrainian nuclear plant blew up and caught fire on April 26, 1986.

    • 1 year ago
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